{
  "schema_version": 1,
  "slug": "supermarket",
  "title": "Supermarket",
  "canonical_url": "https://signalmeaning.com/signals/supermarket/",
  "json_url": "https://signalmeaning.com/data/signals/supermarket.json",
  "summary": "Shifts in consumer shopping behavior and novel supermarket models (lettuce supply issues, farmers market substitution, city-owned supermarkets) driving coverage",
  "why_now": "Recent coverage clustered around a visible lettuce supply issue and simultaneous reporting on city-level supermarket initiatives and local reuse stories, creating both immediate consumer concern and policy curiosity.",
  "evidence_summary": "- WSJ reports shoppers ditching supermarkets for farmers markets amid a lettuce crisis. - Fortune covers city-owned supermarket initiatives competing with market forces. - Local reporting on possible supermarket reuse (Old Marsh) adds regional/operational context.",
  "caveat": "Signal Type: Commerce / Consumer Demand",
  "collected_at": "Mon, 3 Aug 2026 01:40:00 -0700",
  "signal_type": "Commerce / Consumer Demand",
  "score": 74.0,
  "score_field": "adjusted_score",
  "state": "PUBLISH",
  "evidence": [
    "America’s Lettuce Crisis Has Shoppers Ditching Supermarkets for Farmers Markets - WSJ",
    "Mamdani's city-owned supermarkets will fight the one force no city has ever beaten: the market - Fortune"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "America’s Lettuce Crisis Has Shoppers Ditching Supermarkets for Farmers Markets - WSJ",
      "source": "WSJ",
      "url": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMijgFBVV95cUxQdVBNbUFEbXhNRFJKczdtV2hPcG5GeUZkcU1HR0VudGRqTUJSNkNPU1Z3aHhqOU1mLUJkdy12aWlGd0FDMjQyLW55Qm9UVXFGenhkUFM3dERDYXN2WkRnd0FLa01kaDRnelNiajBRZm1WeFlQUmJPRHpOOUJRZ0xPTUNuOU5hYjJuN2RhMkhn?oc=5"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "record_id": "202608031904_signal_Quality-7-supermarket",
    "batch_id": "202608031904",
    "input_files": {
      "Quality": "202608031904_signal_Quality.txt",
      "Musk": "202608031904_signal_Musk.txt",
      "Kurzweil": "202608031859_signal_Kurzweil.txt",
      "Jobs": "202608031857_signal_Jobs.txt",
      "Buffett": "202608031855_signal_Buffett.txt",
      "Bezos": "202608031855_signal_Bezos.txt"
    }
  }
}